Bootstrapping a Marketplace from Brazil: Diego Gomes, CEO of Rock Content (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: The first year revenue was $800,000, and then how did that grow? Diego Gomes: It started at $800,000, then it grew to $1.3 million to $2 million to $8 million. I would say between the year we grew our revenues from $2 million to $8 million was when we accelerated the most. We

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Bootstrapping a Marketplace from Brazil: Diego Gomes, CEO of Rock Content (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Tell me a bit about your first client that was in the model that you found to be a possible success model. Who was that client? What were the circumstances? What did you do for that client? How did you get to the product-market fit?

Sept. 10 – 500th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 500th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, September 10, 2020, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/5 p.m. CEST/8:30 p.m. India IST. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea. You’ll receive straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and answers to any of your

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Bootstrapping a Marketplace from Brazil: Diego Gomes, CEO of Rock Content (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Did you launch as a software company or as a marketplace?  Diego Gomes: I launched it as a software company. The first year was very challenging. Although we were having a little bit of success in selling to customers, the problem was that they were buying a content marketing platform, but they weren’t

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Bootstrapping a Marketplace from Brazil: Diego Gomes, CEO of Rock Content (Part 1)

Diego has built a terrific content marketing company from Brazil. He bootstrapped first, raised money later, and has recently acquired a sizable US company to scale. Excellent story! Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the beginning of your journey. Tell me about your background. Where are you from? Where were you raised?

499th Roundtable Recording on August 20, 2020: With Roberto Milk, NOVICA

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here: 499th 1Mby1M Roundtable August 20, 2020: With Roberto Milk, NOVICA

September 10 – 500th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 500th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, September 10, 2020, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/5 p.m. CEST/8:30 p.m. India IST. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea. You’ll receive straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and answers to any of your

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Roundtable Recap: August 20 – High Impact Entrepreneurship

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Roberto Milk, CEO and Co-founder of NOVICA, a high-impact artisan marketplace. It’s a terrific conversation about NOVICA’s work with artisans around the world. Shel Pitch As for entrepreneur pitches, this week we had Ged Alexander from North Yorkshire, UK, pitched Shela Pitch, a marketplace for entrepreneurs

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